The song that you’d insist is played at your funeral/wake
Year of the Cat - Al Stewart
Mr. Blue Sky - Electric Light Orchestra
It Was a Very Good Year - Sinatra
You Can Close Your Eyes - James Taylor and Carly Simon
Till Victory - The Patti Smith Group
Where Is My Mind - The Pixies
It Is Well With My Soul - Amy Grant
Rook - XTC
Monkey Gone to Heaven - The Pixies
First Movement (allegro vivace) of Symphony #4 (Italian Symphony) by Mendelssohn, as recorded by Herbert von Karajan & the Berlin Philharmonic
Used in the movie “Breaking Away”. As a cyclist, need I say more?
Although it was a family joke between my mother, my sister, and myself that when Mom finally passed away we were going to use “Ding, Dong, The Witch Is Dead”.
And I pass this one back to the respondent above me, Knowed Out.
Songs about hobos, train jumpers, hitchhikers and other nomads
Big Rock Candy Mountain - Harry McClintock
Gentle on My Mind - Glen Campbell
I dip my cup of soup back from a gurglin’ Cracklin’ caldron in some train yard My beard a roughening coal pile And a dirty hat pulled low across my face
Songs about hobos, train jumpers, hitchhikers and other nomads
Big Rock Candy Mountain - Harry McClintock
End of the Line - Traveling Wilburys
Gentle on My Mind - Glen Campbell
Hank and the Hobo - Boxcar Willie
Waltzing Matilda - traditional
Written by Banjo Paterson 1895, widely performed from then but first recorded by Collinson and Callow in 1926.
“Once a jolly swagman camped by a billabong”.
Which happens to be Australia’s country’s unofficial national anthem, with a backstory of events during the 1891 Shearers Strike that lead to the founding of the Australian Labor Party.
